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the said sample was taken, the manner in which the receptacle, package, 

 sack or bag was marked, and the section or sections of the act in viola- 

 tion of which the said seeds were found or suspected to be sold or offered, 

 exposed or had in possession for sale. 



Sec. 4. Any person charged with the enforcement of this act may 

 enter upon any premises to make any examination of any seeds, re- 

 ceptacles, packages, sacks or bags of seed, with resjiect to which he 

 has reason to suspect or believe that any provision of this act is be- 

 ing violated, whether such seeds, receptacles, packages, sacks or bags 

 of seeds are on the premises of the owner, or on other premises, or 

 in the possession of a railway or steamship company, and may take 

 any samples of the said seeds from any receptacle, package, sack or bag, 

 for which samples the owner of the seed shall be paid in accordance -with 

 the amount of the seed thus taken at its current value; and any person 

 who obstructs or refuses to permit the making of any such examina- 

 tion, or the taking of any such samples of seeds, shall upon convic- 

 tion be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars and not 

 less than twenty-five dollars, together with the costs of the prosecution, 

 and in default of payment of the said penalty and costs, shall be liable 

 to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, unless the said 

 penalty and the costs are sooner paid. 



Sec. 5. Said director shall analyze or cause to be analyzed such 

 samples of agricultural seeds as are sold or offered for sale under the 

 provisions of this act, upon complaint or request of purchaser, and may 

 make such further analyses as are necessary to determine the accuracy 

 of guarantees. 



Sec. 6. No person shall sell or offer, expose or have in his posses- 

 sion for sale for the purpose of seeding, any seeds or cereals, grasses, 

 clovers or forage plants containing more than two per cent of any one 

 or more of the following weeds : Quack grass, Agropyron repens Beauv. ; 

 charlock, Brassica arvensis B. S. P. ; black mustard, Brassica nigra Kock ; 

 Indian mustard, Brassica juncea ; false flax, Camelina sativa Crantz ; 

 Canada thistle, Carduus arvensis Robs; chicory, Cichorium intybus L. ; 

 oxeye daisy, Chrysanthemum Laucanthemum L. ; dodder, Cuscuta ; wild 

 carrot, Daucus carota L. ; orange hawkweed, Hieracium aurantiacum 

 L. ; toadflax, butter and eggs, Linaria linaria Karst; narrow-leaved 

 plantain, Plantago ,lanceolata L. ; Rugel's plantain, Plantago Rugelii 

 Dec; night flowering catchfly, Silene noctiflora L. ; penny-cress, Thlas- 

 pi arvensis L. 



Sec. 7. Seeds sold or offered for sale shall not contain adultera- 

 tion of more than five per cent of other distinguishable seed, sand, 

 crushed rock or any other materials to be found mixed with agricultural 

 seed, and considered by the Director of the State Experiment Station 

 to be objectionable as any of those named in section six : Provided. 

 That sections six and seven shall apply only when in the judgment of 

 the Director of the Experiment Station the said lot of seeds in question 

 has been wilfully adulterated or was when harvested too foul ever to 

 be made fit for seeding purposes, or that the same is not as clean as it is 

 commercially practicable to make the same by means of modem appli- 

 ances. 



